Our First Officially Approved WordPress Theme

So our first approved WordPress.org theme is now available on the WP.org repo. Some Like it Neat is a starter theme that we use for most of our WordPress development projects. We built a site for it and you can always grab a copy over at the Github Repo, too, which will always be the latest and greatest version available.

Under the hood there’s not too much crazy stuff going on. It’s a theme built using the Underscores boilerplate, which, by itself, is amazing. I went and added the following features to the theme

Post Format Support

Schema.org Rich Markup

TGM Plugin Activation

Responsive-friendly/Mobile first approach

For other theme devs there’s some other cool stuff going on as well.

Built using Bourbon and Neat for Sass library and responsive grid framework

Uses Gulpjs, which provides the following automated tasks

BrowserSync for live CSS injecting/updates

JS and Css minification

JS concatenation

Image optimation

Auto prefixing of CSS selectors

It also has a command that will build an installable theme zipped package to go and install once you’re ready to go.

A lot of love and work has gone into the theme and a lot has been learned. Specifically what it takes to get a theme into the .org repo, there’s a lot of checkpoints, all necessary. But, man, lots of hoops! But I’ve also learned to work with a variety of tools that have worked to make my theme building more efficient, so that’s an added bonus.

Give theme theme a spin and let me know what you all think! You can grab it off the repo here: Github Repo